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After conquering it, Png, 52, challenged De Cruz to take on the Giant Swing at Skypark Sentosa by AJ Hackett with him \u2013 a challenge she agreed to.<\/p>\n
“Having Pierre by my side is everything. The courage always comes from him,” said DeCruz. “If this were my last day and he asked me to do something extreme, I would do it with him because I have him to hang on to for dear life.”<\/p>\n
Recalling the life-threatening moment from years ago, DeCruz shared in the episode: “I had been filming a lot, I thought all I was feeling was just exhaustion. I didn’t know I was ill until my sister, who used to work for the National Kidney Foundation, looked at me. She said: ‘You need to go and see your doctor.’ I said, ‘Why?’ She said: ‘Your whites are very yellow.’<\/span><\/p>\n “So I went to see the doctor. She pressed on my tummy and she said, ‘Your liver is inflamed.’ From then on, everything just went downhill.”<\/span><\/p>\n She added: “I was probably admitted on Apr 11 and by May 7, I needed the transplant. There was a priest who came to visit me just before the transplant. I told him that if God takes me, I\u2019m ready because I\u2019ve lived a fulfilling life.”<\/span><\/p>\n Png also shared his own thoughts: \u201cI remember during the transplant, Andrea and I had no blood relation. They wanted to\u00a0establish\u00a0that there was an\u00a0emotional\u00a0tie between Andrea and me. I’m her boyfriend and I proposed to her. She’s now my fiancee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The episode also saw the couple looking back on their 23-year-long marriage, while eating durian.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were married 16 to 17 months after the transplant,\u201d said Png. \u201cWe had just gone through something very life-changing. Andrea had a transplant the year before. The transplant was a success. Her body accepted the liver, we got married as soon as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n When asked by Png if she thought they “would last this long”, DeCruz replied before breaking down in tears: “Honestly, I never really gave it any thought. When we got married, I definitely hoped that we would last a lifetime until our last day on earth. Like I always mention to you, that if I go, I hope it will be going with you too, right?”<\/p>\n DeCruz later added that when she was ill, she “put a lot of faith” in Png “because he’s the best person to have around when the storm hits”.<\/p>\n “When he’s calm, I’m calm. I draw a lot of strength from him, and I think that helps in anyone’s recovery process,” she said.<\/p>\n Watch the full episode below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After conquering it, Png, 52, challenged De Cruz to take on the Giant Swing at Skypark Sentosa by AJ Hackett with him \u2013 a challenge…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--l6FMsOaX--\/c_crop,h_907,w_1614,x_112,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/11\/pierre_png_andrea_de_cruz_reflect_on_liver_transplant.jpg?itok=Ho8dosCA","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9062,28043,5249,11173,3496,28044,3719,11605,3742,13584],"class_list":["post-75724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-andrea","tag-decruz","tag-fears","tag-liver","tag-marriage","tag-overcoming","tag-pierre","tag-png","tag-reflect","tag-transplant","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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